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ESSAY

ON THE

PRINCIPLES OF TRANSLATION.



INTRODUCTION.

There is perhaps no department of literature which has been less the object of cultivation than the Art of Translating. Even among the ancients, who seem to have had a very just idea of its importance, and who have accordingly ranked it among the most useful branch-es